The BEST episodes of Gunsmoke season 12
Every episode of Gunsmoke season 12, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Gunsmoke season 12!
Marshal Matt Dillon keeps the peace in the rough and tumble Dodge City.
#1 - Ladies from St. Louis
Season 12 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/25/1967
When a bank robber saves five nuns, the nuns look to a higher power to convince the man to turn himself in to the authorities.
#2 - The Whispering Tree
Season 12 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1966
After a robbery, Virgil Stanley buries the money before being captured. It has been eight years and Virgil is being released. He has plans to use the money but has to deal with others with the same idea.
#3 - Champion of the World
Season 12 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/24/1966
Bull Bannock, ex world heavyweight champion, tries to make a place for himself in Dodge City.
#4 - The Well
Season 12 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/1966
Dodge becomes restless when a severe drought dries up all the wells except for one. Now it becomes a fight to keep living, placing Marshal Dillon in the middle.
#5 - Muley
Season 12 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/21/1967
After a young gunslinger wounds Matt, he comes to Dodge to finish him off and to rob the bank. He gets distracted after going to the saloon, where he meets and falls in love with one of Kitty's girls.
#6 - The Returning
Season 12 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/18/1967
Luke Todd's family is hurting due to severe drought. Luke calls his old gang and they decide to rob the freight office in Dodge. When things go wrong, Luke leaves the stolen money for his wife to find. This action only leads to problems.
#7 - Snap Decision
Season 12 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1966
Matt quits his job as Marshal when he shoots Ray Gilcher, a prisoner and wartime buddy, dead in apparent self defense and it turns out Glicher was actually trying to save Matt's life.
#8 - The Jailer
Season 12 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1966
Etta Stone is a very bitter, older, woman who has Kitty and Matt captured, and thrown into a homemade jail, and now she plans on hanging Matt for the execution of her husband 6 years before.
#9 - Saturday Night
Season 12 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/7/1967
A cattle-drive, led by Virgil Powell, helps a sick Matt Dillon get his prisoner to Dodge. But the prisoner has made a deal with a cowboy on the drive to avoid a certain hanging.
#10 - Noose of Gold
Season 12 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/4/1967
An attorney general uses Matt's friendship with an outlaw for political gain.
#11 - Stage Stop
Season 12 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/26/1966
A station master sets up stagecoaches to be robbed by a gang, and also routinely beats up his beautiful wife.
#12 - The Newcomers
Season 12 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/3/1966
Petter Karlgren, a Swedish immigrant, and his father arrive in the untamed west to settle in Dodge. When Petter is baited into a fight, they will find that the west is more untamed and unforgiving than they ever thought.
#13 - Mistaken Identity
Season 12 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/18/1967
A drifter tries to settle in Dodge after switching identities with a man he found who had been bit by a rattlesnake, but his plans are complicated when that man is brought into town still unconscious.
#14 - Mad Dog
Season 12 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/14/1967
On the way to help his cousin, Festus is mistaken for a hired gunman. The slow-witted Watson Boys will try to make a name for themselves in this humorous offering.
#15 - The Hanging
Season 12 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/31/1966
Dodge City is the site where notorious outlaw, Billy Boles, is set to hang. However, the town is occupied by people determined for their own kind of justice.
#16 - The Moonstone
Season 12 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/17/1966
Chad Timpson is taking care of his mentally challenged brother, Orv. But when a rider comes into Dodge we learn that Chad has a checkered past. A past that may break up the two brothers.
#17 - The Good People
Season 12 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1966
A bounty hunter is falsely charged with murder, when he lies about killing a lynched man he thought was wanted by the law.
#18 - Gunfighter, R.I.P.
Season 12 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1966
A gunslinger hired to kill Matt, backs down from his obligation when he gets badly wounded and falls in love with a beautiful Asian woman who is caring for him, and his employers won't stand for it.
#19 - The Wrong Man
Season 12 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1966
Hootie Kyle felt cheated in a card game by Tenner Jackson. Later, he punches Jackson and takes his thirty dollars back. The next Hootie returns the money to the Marshal only to be told that Jackson had been murdered.
#20 - Old Friend
Season 12 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/4/1967
A Marshal from Arizona has tracked down the men responsible for pillaging his town to an area outside Dodge. He is bound to seek revenge on the outlaws at any cost.
#21 - The Lure
Season 12 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/25/1967
Kitty gets caught up in a scheme where lawmen will try to arrest known criminal Dal Neely by using his daughter as bait. But everyone gets more than they bargained for in this story.
#22 - The Favor
Season 12 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/11/1967
With a man being released from prison that has made threats toward Marshal Dillon, Kitty is torn between a man that saved her life and her duty as a citizen of Dodge City.
#23 - Quaker Girl
Season 12 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/10/1966
When a dying deputy swears in Thad to capture killer Fred Bateman, Thad ends up in a Quaker town, in which the people can not tell which one is the wanted man.
#24 - Fandango
Season 12 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/11/1967
Matt Dillon tries to bring a man to justice but is hindered by a rancher who wants to kill the prisoner for his own reasons.
#25 - The Mission
Season 12 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1966
Matt is in Mexico to pick up a wanted criminal. When bandits steal his credentials, they spring the criminal with the idea of forming a gang of violence.